The Age of Innocence

wish to have her back as proof of an irresistible longing for domestic life.\" M. Riviere paused, and then added: \"Whereas it's far from being as simple as that.\"

Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. For a second or two he could not trust himself to speak. During this interval he heard M. Riviere's chair pushed back, and was aware that the young


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wish to have her back as proof of an irresistible longing for domestic life.\" M. Riviere paused, and then added: \"Whereas it's far from being as simple as that.\"

Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. For a second or two he could not trust himself to speak. During this interval he heard M. Riviere's chair pushed back, and was aware that the young


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